Original 9/11: New transcripts of Kissinger's role in Chilean Coup

[Wetzelbill]

35 Years After Original 9/11: New Transcripts of Kissinger's Role in Chilean Coup
Peter Kornbluh

When Henry Kissinger began secretly taping all of his phone conversations in 1969, little did he know that he was giving history the gift that keeps on giving. Now, on the 35th anniversary of the September 11, 1973, CIA-backed military coup in Chile, phone transcripts that Kissinger made of his talks with President Nixon and the CIA chief among other top government officials reveal in the most candid of language the imperial mindset of the Nixon administration as it began plotting to overthrow President Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically elected Socialist. "We will not let Chile go down the drain," Kissinger told CIA director Richard Helms in a phone call following Allende's narrow election on September 4, 1970, according to a recently declassified transcript. "I am with you," Helms responded.

The "telcons"--telephone conversations transcripts made by Kissinger's secretary from audio tapes that were later destroyed--captured for posterity all of Kissinger's outgoing and incoming phone calls during his tenure as national security advisor and secretary of state. When Kissinger left office in January 1977, he took more than 30,000 pages of the transcripts, claiming they were "personal papers," and using them, selectively, to write his memoirs. In 1999, my organization, the National Security Archive, initiated legal proceedings to force Kissinger to return these records to their rightful owner--the government. At the request of Archive senior analyst William Burr, telcons on foreign policy crises from the early 1970s, including four previously unknown conversations on Chile, were recently declassified by the Nixon Presidential library.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-kornbluh/35-years-after-original-9_b_125447.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Peter Kornbluh is one outstanding American. He has worked so hard getting records made available

for Americans who care to know the truth about our history, our policies. No one can match his contributions.

Thank you.

[Wetzelbill]

2. Right on

Glad you liked it too. :)

[Wetzelbill]

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